1. What is Rooming In and what does it encourage?
Answer
The infant stays in the room with the mother and never leaves; it encourages participation in
caring for the infant
2. How is Rooming In baby friendly?
Answer
anything that can be done in mom's room, is done in mom's room. Only taking baby out of
room when needed
3. How can mom get a break when Rooming In?
Answer
encourage having support people present and not separating from baby
4. what are some advantages to rooming in?
Answer
mom is more attuned to baby, baby typically does better with feedings
5. What is golden hour?
Answer
1st hour of life when baby is born
6. what is kangaroo care?
Answer
skin to skin contact with any caregiver (doesn't have to be mom)
7. How can you utilize the golden hour most effecively?
Answer
skin to skin, promotes bonding between baby and mom
breastfeeding, increases odds of success long term
,8. what is happening during the golden hour?
Answer
-big hormonal shift for mom
-baby adjust to lie outside the womb
-baby is alert right after birth then goes into a sleepy state
9. When is it okay to interrupt golden hour?
Answer
when baby or mom are in danger
10. why is smoking not recommended during pregnancy?
Answer
associated with low birth weights
11. what does substance abuse during pregnancy increase?
Answer
birth defects
12. what level of alcohol is safe for baby?
Answer
NONE
13. why do we perform skin to skin between mother and baby, particularly in the first hour of
life?
Answer
it helps with bettering stats in infants bonding of the baby/mother
-higher success rates for breastfeeding long-term
-helps with babies blood sugar
14. what factors are important in establishing a sufficient breastmilk supply?-
Answer
8-12x per day nursing feeding making sure latch is correct
, the more the baby nurses the more the body knows to make milk
15. assessment of lactation
Answer
how many wet and dirty diapers a baby has had- tells is the baby is getting adequate food
1 wet 1 dry in first 24 hrs
2 wet 2 dry in 48 hr
3 wet 3 dry in 72 hr
6 wet a day, stool can vary by 5 weeks
16. when should baby be back up to birth weight?
Answer
2 weeks
17. what is progesterone?
Answer
pregnancy hormone
responsible for maintaining pregnancy (if low progesterone, may have miscarriages)
18. what does progesterone decrease?
Answer
airway resistsance
19. Negele's rule (expected date of confinement)
Answer
first day of last menstrual period - 3 months + 7 days
Ex
Answer
March 7th (December 7th add 7 days= December 14th)
20. what is the function of the placenta
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